“Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City - An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture”
“Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the publ
“Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, “sterile” boxes that stifle creativity and turn consumers into passive users of technology… Unlike home computers, new Internet-enabled gadgets don’t lend themselves to the sort
“our argument for a more “hope-
ful”research practice is both “ontological”(that urban technologies are, to
some degree, unstable and therefore precarious achievements) and “episte-
mological”(that our knowledge of the practices through
An economist journo does a reasonable job linking ’smart mobs’ to citizen science via Eric Paulos’ “Ergo” air quality sensing project and the broader urban atmospheres work.
Jessica Kraft sez: “Who says you need a PhD in ecology or a research grant from NASA to make a scientific breakthrough? Citizen science is a growing movement of thousands of amateurs who collect, enter and classify data that would have taken researchers y
A Masters student’s project: “I came up with the idea of automating call queues for phone banks while trying to organize one for myself, it was a total hassle to find everyone’s phone number on a particular committee, so I built CommitteeCaller last sem
“A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver. Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to SHARE THE ROAD with one anot
There was an interesting radio programme aired today about the influences of the political movements surrounding May ‘68 upon and from French philosophy (partic. Ecole Superieur). It features interview excerpts with Badiou, Foucault, Henri-Levi, Ranciere
“Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and t
“Cati Vaucelle, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will present two recent projects developed for the Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group focused on Gesture Object Interfaces.
“At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In
“Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use
“By anticipatory governance, we mean the ability of a variety of stakeholders and the lay-public to prepare for the issues that NSE may present before those issues are manifest or reified in particular technologies.”
I particularly enjoyed talks by Jeremy Crampton on ‘progressive’ political blogs as cartographies of left-leaning American politics, Richard Donahue on critical cartography, digital mapping and how participatory GIS might be usefully engaged with, and Matt Wilson on cyborg subjectivation (via Harraway) in relation to GIS technologies.
My own talk was an attempt to articulate one of the specific questions that is arising in my research, and how we might look to answering: Do anticipatory practices of technology development condition expectations for those technologies? What follows is an edited and tidied version of my notes.
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